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WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—The natural advantages that accrue to President Roosevelt in his re-elec-tion campaign by virtue of his commander-in-chief role, and the handicaps faced by Governor Dewey
and the Republicans, strictly. fram. a stdndpoini. of technique, are illustrated in two
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3 thur, who has been sort of a darl. of Berblicans ns oo Bas heett Soft of 4. dar. for the Republican presidential nomination bloomed up until publication of the somewhat. naive letters the general wrote t0 a Nebraska congressman, Beyond being a pet of Republicans, Gen. MacArthur also is a hero with the American people, and the President let it be known that Gen. MacArthur
Is going to lead the way back to the Philippines,
In Delicate Position
PRIVATELY, REPUBLICANS resent all this. They say the President is beginning to stress the Pacific war to keep the war bolstered up and
keep the commander-in-chief ‘role intact, now that * there ls a possiblity the European wes “Wil be. over
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But they find themselves in a delicate position in trying to combat it. The people seem disinclined to read political motives in the President's move-
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Invitation to Willkie
he still has, he has not yet conferred with Governor Dewey, and apparently has received no invitation, The upshot of all the Roosevelt emphasis on the war and post-war international collaboration may be to bring Governor Dewey out earlier to detail his
He is being urged to do this by some of his advisers and by some Republican newspapers, There is the fear that President Roosevelt has a headstart on this issue. and that Governor Dewey may be Ising votes by his delay in clarifying his own posi-
‘By Eleanor Roosevelt
M. Stanley McLean, who is not, I imagine, writer by profession, has sent. me a little story
printed in pamphlet form of his experiences at sea—
primarily of the 13 days which he spent adrift after his ship was sunk. ’ I do not know If it is possible to buy this pamphlet; but it makes ‘interesting reading, and if you ever run across it I think you will realize better what being in the merchant marine, in the war. has meant. The McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. ‘has a interesting advertisement called “The N
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. PATRIOTIC SOCIETY
Months Needed Before New| wr Strength Can Become Effective.
private civilian life, speaks volumes for EE eIADYS present - state of}
. Minister Joseph
effort” for the execution of that decree, which covers the total mo-
Hundreds of small and middlesized factories will have to close as well as important business houses; Postal services will be reduced to one delivery daily; massive restrictions will be made in railway
The quartermasters corps itself will be sifted for men to go into the
be spared. List Five Million Apprentices
They will be replaced by youths who have received special instruction. There are 5,000,000 apprentices ready to fill their places, it is claimed. :
service. All domestics of foreign origin will be transferred to munitions works with German women
those hitherto exempt from war service will be incorporated into the service of “homeworkers.” Moving picture ‘and theater personnel will be released for jobs of national importance.
A resulting shatp decline in production is certain. : The production of articles in current use will be entirely suspended, apart from goods for the Wehrmacht and victims of air bombardments. In principle, only wholesalers ard retailers of foodstuffs and coal will remain open and even many of these will ‘be Suppressed,
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by The 1 The Indi “The Chicago Daily N agapelia Limes
MEETS WEDNESDAY
She Testing 4 8 5 m. Wednesday Federated Patriotic Sa N. < society at George H. Chapman, Women's Rellet corps 10, will provide enter tainment consisting of music by the Moose band, with Mrs. Kathym
master. battle of words.
By TOM WOLF NEA Staft Writer SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Aug. 14.—Dr. Goebbels has met his Where fhe surrender is the payoff, Herr Doktor has lost the
: of 50,000 prisoners taken by the allies to date, more than 20,000
which they nave been shelled and At Cherbourg over 2000 of the master race surrendered directly to the “hog callers”"—trucks “equipped with loud-speakers for smooth talking right at the front. “Nazi supermen in the front line foxholes aren't interested in DE explained the head of the United States 1st army's warfare section. “They're interested only in air and artillery support. It's the man just back of the front with whom you can talk politics.” To reach this man just behind the front German positions were bombed. with over a million coples of a four-page newspaper in which we wove—from the words of Hitler himself and of -Nazidom’s top princes—a gray ‘ tapestry of collapse, confusion and distrust. Hour after hour “BBC. ang’ ABSIE echoed: / this : 1 ‘message. 7
' Hitler 15 Quoted.
The ‘men at the very , font, weren't entirely neglected inthis
many . But by and large the attackon Hitler is playing a small part in
the leaflets shot to the fromt. TOu Job lst 10 eonvince tend
Times Special NEW YORK, ‘Aug: 14 —Emie Pyle is “the biggest thing in this
everywhere,”
sad-faced little correspondent who has been taken to the hearts of mil-
tive pieces from the fighting frog “Gee, what a hold he's got’
North Africa, Sicily, Italy and! France. “They're nuts about him: Every place a correspondent goes,
‘Is Ernie Pyle here?’
the cry echoes through the woods: ‘Hey, fellows, Ernie Pyle is here.’ “Then the headaches for the M. P.’s begin, because the kids rush from the woods and block the roads looking for Ernie's jeep. One day I was behind him in a jeep and the men were lined up along the road shouting, ‘Hey, Ernie! Hello, Ernie!’ “They waved their hats and held i: up the butts of their guns for him
FOOD FLOWING
“Nearly = Starving Inhabitants. -
By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, Aug. 14 (U. P.).—Enemy
dwindled sufficiently today for allied military government officials to begin organizing a flow of food, water and medical supplies to the nearly-starving inhabitants, Snipers had been cleaned out of Empoli, 15 miles southwest of Florence, where New Zealand troops of the British 8th army were in firm control. Except for the capture of the village of Frontone, 27 miles inland from the Adriatic on the north south Urbino-Fabriano railway, the balance of the Italian. front was comparatively quiet, with activity limited to patrols. AMG officials’ were striving today to restore normal life tol: Florence, which fell into allied hands Saturday when the Germans completed the withdrawal of their main forces northward to new posi= tions along a canal on the outer fringe of the city. :
BRAZIL PRODUCES ACIDS WASHINGTON—A ton a day of citric-acid crystals is the expected output of a new plant at Fagenda,
. =3he ‘very front. Ask your. officers.’
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2 Cameraman Back From Normandy Reports LOOT N [IN FRIGHT
war and the hero of the G. 1's COURS
from the Normandy battle lines, in! the telling of the adventures of theigef
those kids,” said Sullivan, Who Bo<iyisatl companied Pyle in the invasions of {ghe
the first question of the soldiers isigy If you say.'Giipe ‘Yes, Ernie’s right behind me here]
INTO FLORENCE|
AMG Rushes Supplies to! .
sniping and street fighting between | partisans and fascists in Florence #2
ve had with them some of the allied propaganda leaflets with bombed’ continuously since D-day. i
Hitler's a heel,” said the 1st U.8. army PWD chief, “but to cone
_ vince them we won't shoot them
if they surrender—as they've been told we do.” Three Major Points - Almost all the leaflet being shot to the foxholes stress one of three points: You have no support; we treat prisoners magnificently; your officers are deserting you. “At first we told them to shoot their officers if their officers tried to ‘prevent them from surrendering,” said the colonel. “We quickly found this backfired. It created an artificial solidarity between the officers and men. So now we sow. distrust in a different way. We know, for example, that many -officérs’ are staying away from So we tell the Soidigrs “Where's the Luftwaffe? The officers [aren't there to be asked.” + JTe put a clincher on embarrassg- Questions, psychological warp uses sound trucks brought as 8 to the front as possible, pdspeakers are then strung out,
e as 40 yards from the enemy. 5 Is particularly effective be- ; it shows the enemy how 396 we are,
INative Tongues Spoken
“American soldiers born in Rus- % Poland, Germany, speaking ive tongues, urge erstwhile
-gompatriots to listen to friendly =~
and surrender.
to “‘gutograph. Then they pulled out Suk Sliorines of his column and a to autograph them. Becaise most of these columns bear is better known
“President Roosevelt couldn't get sb ter - reception from the Joes al Ernie does. I'm an old timer
ififferent outfits send him infons to live and eat with them. se invitations come even from the generals.” Stllivan said he last saw Ernie Aug, 3 near St. Lo and that he was lislicked out in a new outfit of
gan ‘fdded. “Ernie went into the Norinandy beach with the sécond wave and was only a short distance from Pete Paris, an artist for Yank, when ‘the latter was killed. Ernie stood the rigors of the landing well, much better than many younger corfespondents. “Ernie is the only man I've known who =»Qtually stopped the war,” Sullivan weit on. “We were going into Cherbourg and in the
Ellen Thompson fn Hospital Post
MISS ELLEN THOMPSON, former superintendent of the |. Princeton general - hospital, has me. appointed director - of the nursing aid work at
Whittern, superintendent of nurses and
principal of the school of nursing, announced today. Miss Thompson, a registered nurse who was graduated from the Methodist hospital school of nurs-
Miss Thompson ing, will give direct assistance to the White Cross volunteer aids
and the Red Cross volunteer nursing aids. With the new appointment, the hospital will make larger use of the volunteer helpers in assisting trained nurses by direct» ing the work of volunteers, Miss Whittern said, and volunteers will have the advantage of professional coaching.
CANADA STRIKE: ENDS
"MONTREAL, Aug. 14 (U. Po— Trolley and bus operators returned to work under supervision of two government controllers today, ending an ll-day strike of 4000 em-
Co... who walked out to enforce demands for a union shop. The government, in an unprecedented move, issued an order under the war measures act to take over di-
rection of the company.
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ployees of the Montreal Tramways |
The shells fired from this ‘big gun contain leaflets. They're not : aplusive, but they're just as effective as TNT,
Loading up for a paper Yaris. soldiers fill shells with carefully worded messages to the Nazis, urging their surrender.
“We don’t try to strike terror in Jerry souls,” said the colonel. “We assume the artillery already has done that. Our payoff is to convince them that now is the time to surrender. We offer a man the line of least resistance on a purely personal basis.” Prisoner of war figures: alone
woods on both sides of us were | soldiers firing. = Somieone spotted Ernie and the ery went up ‘There; goes Ernie Pyle. The kids ran out of the woods and surrounded the Jeep. “It seems they want to touch him, shake hands with him, or just feel his clothes.” Sullivan said Pyle was in the) same vicinity as Lt. Gen. Lesley] McNair when the latter was killed
He said the bombers were dropping their missiles within an area marked off by smoke from pots on the ground. The wind drifted this smoke backward over the American positions, he added, and some of the bombs consequently fell short. Pyle describes this in a recent article. Sullivan was-in Spain during the revolution, saw the Russo-Finnish war and has served on all fronts, during the present conflict. He was! wounded when the Naples postoffice | was blasted by German time-bombs | and wears the purple heart. Just as soon as he can get some needed dental work done — he] endured a toothache for 52 days in! Normandy—he’ll be back in France| again, again answering GI questions | about Ernie Pyle.
PACIFIC BASES NEEDED-- F.D.R.
President Warns Word of Japan® Can Not Be Trusted.
aren't an adequate criterion of the success of psychological ware fare’s work. Many prisoners vole unteer information that others would like to surrender but are afraid. Creating.a desire to sure render 48 just as important a part of psychological warfare division work as getting prisoners.
Purse Snatchings. Sluge« gings Reported in Week-
End Crimes.
A young bandit operating on the East side last night did a “good” hour's work but his efforts were
wasted. At about 11 p. m, yesterday he pointed a gun at Mrs, Fay Gates, 4421 E. Washington st, Apt. 5, slugged her in front of 50 Bankers lane and took her billfold containe ing $18 and a yellow gold watch valued at $70. At 11:51 p. m. the young bandit dropped the billfold on the porch of Ray D. Branamon, 324 N. Bosart ave, after he was frightened by Jake Worley, 439 N. Linwood ave, and Ray Bicknell; 24 N. Dearborn st., who followed him when they thought he looked suspicious.
Billfold Recovered
The billfold will be returned to Mrs. Gates. A man with similar identification { took the purse of Miss Jean Thomas
ing at Ohio and Davidson sts. The purse contained $25, a cigaret case and valuable papers. Another purse snatcher grabbed the handbag of Marie Vaughn, 610 Blake st., apt. 80, at 10th and West sts., taking $19.75. Police today also were looking for two bandits who, brandishing ree
- volvers, held up the Kroger grocery ..
store; 1130 Central ave., Saturday,
‘| taking $200 and some checks.
One of the bandits is believed to be a soldier since witnesses said he was wearing khaki trousers and the
BREMERTON, Wash, Aug. 14 (U. P.).—Warning that “the word and honor of Japan cannot be trusted.” President Roosevelt told; the nation on his return from his| Pacific tour that a network of for- | ward Pacific bases in the years to! come was. essential to the safety! of the United States. i The President spoke from the deck of a destroyer in the Puget! Sound navy yard shortly after he, arrived from Alaskan waters, where | he viewed the bases at Adak and| Kodiak after his visit to Pearl! Harbor for conferences with Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm, Ches- | ter Nimitz. Mr. Roosevelt said the war in the Pacific was “well in hand” but told} his nation-wide radio audience he | could not tell if he knew when that war or the one in Europe would | be over. { The conflict will end sooner, he! said, if the people maintain a: con-| tinued production of “necessary! supplies and ships and planes.” The President said this nation had no desire for any possession of others of the united nations but that he was confident “the united nations ‘who - are working so well with us in the winning of the war will be glad to join with us in protection against aggression and in machinery to prevent aggression.”
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revolver, Richard Jacoby, 2968 N. Chester ave. manager of ‘the store; was {slugged®on the head with a revolver when he reached for a meas cleaver.”
* Report Other Sluggings
A truck owned by Mike Ray, 323 S. New Jersey st. also was stolen Saturday after he parked it at the Hoosier Pete station, South and East sts. The truck, containing 20 bags of onions and 40 bags of potatoes, was found wrecked in Bed ford yesterday. Two other sluggings were reported [to police yesterday, Fred Weber, 55, of 6 W. Michigan st. He
his condition is reported not serious, Harold Schlarf, 17, attendant at la filling. station at 1111 W. Wash» {ington st., was beaten unconscious at the station. yesterday. He was taken to City hospital but his condition -is net: serious. Police were unable to get details from the youth, A 14-year-old boy is being held by juvenile aid authorities today after
he was caught ransacking the office
at the Circle theater last night,
MAJ. RALPH BOULTON
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was found slugged near 1129 E. 19th st. was taken ‘to "City hospital where
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